Perceptual development of the Finnish /t-tː/ distinction in Dutch 12-year-old children: A training study

Heeren, Willemijn; Schouten, M. E. H.

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.08.005

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“…The ultimate outcome of perceptual training would be to improve the non-native speakers’ perceptual performance to native-level performance levels. No training study has achieved this (e.g., [ 6 , 16 , 17 , 43 ]). It is unclear yet how successful HVPT-AAC could be when it would be used for a longer time.…”

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“…Flege’s Speech Learning Model [ 9 ] hypothesizes that the more dissimilar speech sounds are, the higher the chance is that they would be encoded into two distinctive phonological categories and identified as distinctive phonemic sounds. Similar to training studies that used discrimination training (more common in training studies that used synthetic training stimuli, e.g., [ 10 – 12 ]), HVPT-AAC training is designed to improve in particular participants’ sensitivity towards meaningful cues in non-native speech signals, to facilitate discrimination of between-category differences [ 43 ]. Perceptual sensitivity development was targeted based on the assumption that this ability reflects one of the native speakers’ advantages in native speech sound perception and that detection of such between-category differences is the fundamental limitation for non-native speakers.…”

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High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained

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This paper evaluates a novel high variability phonetic training paradigm that involves presenting spoken words in adverse conditions. The effectiveness, generalizability, and longevity of this high variability phonetic training in adverse conditions was evaluated using English phoneme contrasts in three experiments with Malaysian multilinguals. Adverse conditions were created by presenting spoken words against background multi-talker babble. In Experiment 1, the adverse condition level was set at a fixed level throughout the training and in Experiment 2 the adverse condition level was determined for each participant before training using an adaptive staircase procedure. To explore the effectiveness and sustainability of the training, phonemic discrimination ability was assessed before and immediately after training (Experiments 1 and 2) and 6 months after training (Experiment 3). Generalization of training was evaluated within and across phonemic contrasts using trained and untrained stimuli. Results revealed significant perceptual improvements after just three 20-minute training sessions and these improvements were maintained after 6 months. The training benefits also generalized from trained to untrained stimuli. Crucially, perceptual improvements were significantly larger when the adverse conditions were adapted before each training session than when it was set at a fixed level. As the training improvements observed here are markedly larger than those reported in the literature, this indicates that the individualized phonetic training regime in adaptive adverse conditions (HVPT-AAC) is highly effective at improving speech perception.

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High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained

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“…(1) Improvement in both age groups Giannakopoulou et al, 2017;Evans & Martín-Alvares, 2016;Shinohara, 2014;Wang & Kuhl, 2003;Giannakopoulou, Uther, & Ylinen, 2010Heeren & Schouten, 2010 (2) a) older children will improve more than younger children b) younger children will improve more than older children a) Shinohara, 2014 (comparison 6-7 yearolds versus 8-18 year olds) b) Giannakopoulou, 2013 (comparison 7-8 year-olds versus adults)…”

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“…Since English orthography is known to be opaque, the novel pseudoword items were created to be as transparent as possible and kept vowel orthography identical to that used in the trained items. (Heeren & Schouten, 2010). Figure 1 gives an overview of the procedure 5 .…”

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“…Data was collected during training and from a battery of pre/post-generalization tests. Both vowel discrimination and identification were tested, since differences between these are sometimes reported (Sadakata & McQueen 2013, Heeren & Schouten, 2010. In addition, we had separate identification tests using orthography and pictures, bearing in mind the discussion in Shinohara (2014) of the potential challenges of orthography for younger learners.…”

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Training Child Learners On Non-Native Vowel Contrasts with Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability

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Wonnacott³

2020

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Acquiring a non-native speech contrast is often difficult. High variability phonetic training (HVPT) is a well-established method used to train learners on non-native phoneme contrasts: it critically uses high variability (HV) input after earlier studies using low variability (LV) input had proved unsuccessful. HVPT has since been successfully applied in many different studies with adult participants, but much less so with children. The current study further investigates the effect of input variability on phonetic training for children, examining whether, like adults previously, they show a HV benefit. In a two-week training study, 58 Dutch 7-year-olds and 51 Dutch 11-year-olds were trained on Standard Southern British English vowel contrasts using either HV (multiple talkers) or LV (single talker) input. Both groups improved in training, however, contrary to the idea of a plasticity benefit for younger learners, only the 11-year-olds showed evidence of generalization i.e. improvement on pre/post-tests with unfamiliar talkers, with Bayes Factors showing null evidence for 7-year-olds. Critically, there was no evidence that 11-year-olds showed greater generalization following HV input, with evidence for the null in some tests. Results are discussed in terms of difficulties of the training and testing tasks and possible interactions with the benefits of input variability.

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Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication

Brekelmans

Lavan

Saito

et al. 2022

Journal of Memory and Language

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Perceptual development of the Finnish /t-tː/ distinction in Dutch 12-year-old children: A training study

Cited by 19 publications

References 52 publications

High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained

High variability phonetic training in adaptive adverse conditions is rapid, effective, and sustained

Training Child Learners On Non-Native Vowel Contrasts with Phonetic Training: The Role of Task and Variability

Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication

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